We've recently found out that we've been asked to come back for the second year in a row to play at the 2008 KVMR Celtic Festival this coming September in Grass Valley, CA!! This will be the 12th Annual KVMR Celtic Festival, and this year's lineup will be extremely exciting!!
The headliners this year are no less than one of the biggest bands in the Celtic genre, SOLAS!! We made a comment on stage last year about being "just a Karan Casey away from a Solas tribute band", and that says in the proverbial nutshell how Nine-8ths Irish feels about Solas. They are one of the best traditional Irish bands, even though the majority of the members are actually American-born! But enough about Solas....you can visit the KVMR website to read more about the entire festival as the late September date gets closer.
N8i will be playing two sets on both Saturday 9/27 and Sunday 9/28 (no Friday performances this year, as they have eliminated that due to lack of volunteers.) Our performance times are still TBA, but check our website - we'll be posting any other information as soon as we have it available!!
See you at the next show or Contra Dance!!
Linda, Chris, Bo & Kathy
Nine-8ths Irish
"Irish and a wee bit more!!"
Friday, June 27, 2008
Summertime!
It's already nearly July, and somehow it just doesn't seem like it!! School has let out, it's been over 100 degrees, but it's just not like it was when we were kids and summer meant the biggest accomplishment of the day was where to go swimming and how much more tan we were than the day before. Now it seems like a feat when we get an afternoon nap!
Half of Nine-8ths Irish (Linda & Chris) were finally able to take a real vacation, which we spent in Weiser, Idaho for the National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest. This was the first time I (Linda) had gone back to Weiser in about 18 years, and was Chris' first time. He admitted he thought it would be nothing but contest fiddling, but upon arriving and experiencing it, there was plenty of bluegrass, swing music, irish, and old-time, as well as the contest fiddling. We were able to stay up until the wee hours playing music, visiting with some old (and some new) friends, and generally having a WONDERFUL time!! We succeeded in the sleep deprivation experiment, though surprisingly we slept quite well. And the fact that it didn't really get dark until nearly 11 o'clock at night added to that, and made for great music to which to go to sleep.
While there, we ran into Patrick and Robin from Boise, as well as Dave Marshall (and others) from Vancouver, Roland White from Portland, and Clyde Curley even put in an appearance!! Plus there was Larry Chung from San Francisco, with whom my brother John Relph was in the band Cabin Fever (featuring Megan Lynch, who also was there!!) We saw Tristan Clarridge, the Grand National Champion this year (4th time for him, I believe), and his sister Tashina (who took 2nd place), as well as Kimber Ludiker (who took third!). As I understand it, those three are roommates in the Boston, MA area, and they swept the top three...perhaps we should all visit Massachusetts and drink some of the water.....!!
We saw Starr McMullen and her husband Pat (from Oregon...great fiddler, great people!!), and witnessed a marathon jam with quintessential Texas fiddler Carl Hopkins (man that guy can improvise!!). We had great food from Benny's Tacos....spent a bit of time at the grocery store, as well as the State Liquor Store in Weiser, and also ran into Kim & Duffy Markel, who used to run the camping there at the old Institute where we camped. All in all, we had a really great time, and I'll put up some photos in the next post, and continue with the story....
Half of Nine-8ths Irish (Linda & Chris) were finally able to take a real vacation, which we spent in Weiser, Idaho for the National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest. This was the first time I (Linda) had gone back to Weiser in about 18 years, and was Chris' first time. He admitted he thought it would be nothing but contest fiddling, but upon arriving and experiencing it, there was plenty of bluegrass, swing music, irish, and old-time, as well as the contest fiddling. We were able to stay up until the wee hours playing music, visiting with some old (and some new) friends, and generally having a WONDERFUL time!! We succeeded in the sleep deprivation experiment, though surprisingly we slept quite well. And the fact that it didn't really get dark until nearly 11 o'clock at night added to that, and made for great music to which to go to sleep.
While there, we ran into Patrick and Robin from Boise, as well as Dave Marshall (and others) from Vancouver, Roland White from Portland, and Clyde Curley even put in an appearance!! Plus there was Larry Chung from San Francisco, with whom my brother John Relph was in the band Cabin Fever (featuring Megan Lynch, who also was there!!) We saw Tristan Clarridge, the Grand National Champion this year (4th time for him, I believe), and his sister Tashina (who took 2nd place), as well as Kimber Ludiker (who took third!). As I understand it, those three are roommates in the Boston, MA area, and they swept the top three...perhaps we should all visit Massachusetts and drink some of the water.....!!
We saw Starr McMullen and her husband Pat (from Oregon...great fiddler, great people!!), and witnessed a marathon jam with quintessential Texas fiddler Carl Hopkins (man that guy can improvise!!). We had great food from Benny's Tacos....spent a bit of time at the grocery store, as well as the State Liquor Store in Weiser, and also ran into Kim & Duffy Markel, who used to run the camping there at the old Institute where we camped. All in all, we had a really great time, and I'll put up some photos in the next post, and continue with the story....
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